@ALT_uscis@metaquest@SpicyFiles@equalandallied1@rkfatheree@ThomasS4217 2/ Conveniently enough, Congress is "working" to keep the gov't open with "a 'continuing resolution' that would fund federal agencies through Dec. 7. ICE asked Congress to include the $1 billion increase in the continuing resolution." (more...)
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 This 7.10.14 article shows *how* tight Sheriff Israel is w/ Roger Stone.
<thread> 1/ Despite being sentenced to 1 yr in prison in '02, Suereth served 60 days house arrest & 5 yrs probation. Also in '02, Suereth married Thorne (who became Sheriff Israel's AsstChiefOfStaff in '14).
@lrozen@ThomasS4217 2/ In 2002, "Thorne was already working for Stone and Suereth and his son Andrew Miller would soon join the political operative's coterie."
Thorne was officially referred for the BSO job by Israel's campaign strategist, Ron Gunzburger, a close friend and associate of Stone's...
Aug 2, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
(1/4) Pete Sessions (R-TX32), Waco-born, son of former FBI director William Steele Sessions, said this on Jun23:
"a big-time guy in Highland Park... killed his wife, just gunned her down. And that was because the judge was unfair, and the woman was unfair" talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/top-house-r…
(2/4) This son of former FBI Director WilliamSessions "did vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, joining a majority of Republicans who opposed the bill... b/c of new provisions that would allow Native American tribes to prosecute non-tribal members."
Aug 2, 2018 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
<Thread> 1/ California's election primary was on June 5, 2018, and Los Angeles County inexplicably excluded 118,509 registered voters from their voter roster printouts. Today IBM Security Services published a 3-page Executive Summary on what caused this error. (con't)
2/ I found this Executive Summary confusing because it begins by saying that a disruption LAvote.net occurred from 11:20 pm to 11:41 pm, but doesn't offer a date this occurred, and what LAvote.net has to do with printing voter roster lists.❓
From Friday the 13th's grand jury indictment:
"For example, on or about Friday, Oct 28, 2016 KOVALEV and his co-conspirators visited the websites of certain counties in
Georgia
Iowa
Florida
to identify vulnerabilities."
@metaquest 2/ This also happened on Friday, Oct 28 2016:
"Comey sent a letter to members of Congress advising them that the FBI was reviewing more emails. Members of Congress leaked the information to the public within minutes.[106]." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Com…
Jul 15, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
(1/4) "Large crowds are... expected in Kisumu, Kenya’s third largest city, where Obama will fly on Monday before driving to his father’s home village of Kogelo in Siaya County, a journey of about 43.5 miles (70 kilometers)… (con't)
(2/4) … Big screens will be set up in towns in Siaya County to show the launch of the vocational center and prevent overcrowding at the venue, said Siaya County Governor Cornell Rasanga on Nation Television."
Jul 14, 2018 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Unanswered question: Why was @SenRonJohnson part of the CODEL to the Kremlin🇷🇺 on July 4th🇺🇸🎇 (he appeared to be a last-minute addition)?
Could #NRA and #RussianRubles🇷🇺 convinced him to go?
Link to highly recommended article by @mikespiesnyc:
2/ In 2014, "To get its message out, the NRA turned to an unknown consulting firm, Starboard Strategic, paying it $19 million. More than a third of that money was invested in must-win Senate seats in Colorado, North Carolina and Arkansas..."
1/ “'This is a legal form of money laundering in order to help a handful of wealthy donors get around federal contribution limits,'” said Brendan Fischer, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan group focused on campaign finance, voting rights & other issues."
2/ @MattForMontana "Rosendale spokesman Shane Scanlon did not return a call or email for comment."
Remember Shane Scanlon, who was @GregForMontana's spokesman last year?
@ThomasS4217 1/ This <thread> provides a timeline for what appears to be a coordinated effort by the current WH to expand pool of children available for transnational adoptions, which began at the State dept.'s Consular Affairs office on Jan 27, 2017, and by DHS on Feb 2, 2017 #ZeroTolerance@ThomasS4217 2/ Fueled by evangelical fervor for transnational adoptions (receipts downthread: indebted to @rkfatherlee), current WH Adm.'s goal is to remove detained minors from federal jurisdiction (HHS/ACF/ORR/UAC) as quickly as possible by transferring detained children to 1 of 17 states
Jul 11, 2018 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
#NATOSummit2018 <Thread>
Jul 10: 1/ "NATO heads of state are due to meet Wednesday in Brussels beneath the disinterested gaze of President Donald Trump before he jets off to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki." (con't)
2/ Continuation of previous quote from @MollyMcKew:
"British🇬🇧 PM Theresa May... faces a pending collision with the brick wall of #Brexit..." in "what would usually be staid diplomatic photo-ops that could... seriously disrupt the int'l order... (con't) politico.com/magazine/story…
Jul 5, 2018 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
<Thread> DJT in #GreatFallsMT today
But 1st, @SteveDaines in Moscow🇷🇺 on Jul4🇺🇸🎇
"Russians have made a lot of money in extraction industries like mining, oil, & gas along with the banking connections to funnel illicit money across the globe. (con't) billingsgazette.com/opinion/column…2/ These are the people Daines will meet with because these are the men who control Russia. These are the men who have journalists killed, dissidents jailed and invade neighboring countries to keep their profits intact."
by @joshuamanning23
Jul 3, 2018 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
<Thread> on the cold-blooded murder of five @CapGazNews journalists last week, which connects #Cult45 neo-confederate (white supremacist) torch-bearers with the evil currently occupying the WH's call to harm journalists (and subsequent snub) and... Whitefish Montana. 1/ TIMELINE 2/ Let's start with the events that happened today (Jul 2):
<Thread> 1/ What's happening in Helsinki in July is not a "summit," but rather an annual performance evaluation of DJT by Putin.
Timeline of recent and July events connecting:
China🇨🇳
NATO
North Korea🇰🇵
Russia🇷🇺
South Korea🇰🇷
US🇺🇸
(links provided downthread- con't)... 2/ In this recent timeline of events, you'll notice the trademark DJT "waffle" or "do-over" or denial that what took place a day or two ago didn't actually happen.
There's a reason for this:
DJT "has an acute understanding of one thing: test marketing."
Jun 26
Rick Perry meets Russia Energy Minister Alexander Novak in DC🇺🇸
John Bolton in Moscow🇷🇺
Jul 4
Seven US Senators in Moscow🇷🇺
Jul 11-12
NATO Summit in Brussels🇧🇪
Jul 15
DJT meets Putin in (Helsinki🇫🇮?) #WorldCup Final in Moscow🇷🇺
2/ Tuesday, June 26. Rick Perry met with Russia🇷🇺Energy Minister Alexander Novak in DC🇺🇸:
(1/16) #ZeroTolerance
Detention centers for adult asylum seekers and subsequent "tender care"/foster care facilities are administered at the state, not federal level. This <thread> provides a background on the process involved in awarding these contracts.
(2/16) It looks like GOP is taking steps to staunch the unrelenting flow of orphaned asylum seeking children to state-licensed "tender age"/foster care facilities:
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(1/4) Today DJT will be in Adelson country (LasVegas).
Jun/Jul schedule:
Jun 26
Perry and Novak meet; Bolton in Moscow to set stage for DJT visit in July
Jul 4🇺🇸🎆
Four US Senators in Moscow
Jul 11-12
NATO Summit in Brussels
Jul ?
DJT in Moscow
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(2/4) "Perry will meet Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak on Tues, in the context of the World Gas Conference that is being held in Washington...
Meetings between top energy officials from Russia and the United States...have been rare in recent yrs."
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@mike_dutoit@ThomasS4217@traciemac_Bmore 1/ I'm collecting information about federal expenditures on #ZeroTolerance and stumbled upon what appears to be an OMG about one of the 5 vendors identified by @hunterw (links to all sources will be included in this <thread>):
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@mike_dutoit@ThomasS4217@traciemac_Bmore@hunterw 2/ And it has to do with the *smallest* contract signed in Sep 2017, Dynamic Educational Systems a subsidiary of Exodyne in Phoenix AZ ($5.6 Million).
"Ralph A. Rockow founded Exodyne, Inc. in 1982 and also serves as its Chairman and CEO." bloomberg.com/research/stock…
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